This project seeks to preserve and value the Shipibo culture by uniting Shipibo elders and youth in a workshop entitled “Ceremony of Shipibo Ancestral Values.” This workshop is a traditional celebration and initiation, where songs of healing, love, work, hunting, praise of nature and the joy of living among the Shipibo are shared between elders to youth.
The complex cultural system of the Shipibo people is based on constant interaction between the material world and the spiritual world, specifically the Ayahuasca system, the mother plant of all medicinal plants of the Amazonian rainforest. Songs, dances and teachings all emerge through the genius and generosity of these sacred plants.